Someone above was talking about places like Brazil having great achievments if what you said was true...they do have a nice culture with lots of achievments and art. They have one of the worlds largest economies, thats an achievment. Especially when you compare them to the countries that surround them.

I was a student of Higher Education. But that term turns me off. I have seen through the years that some people actually benefit from higher education if they do not let the opinions of "Their Superior Teachers/Professors" get in the way of their pursuit of "True Knowledge".

I have known and worked with many people without a degree or higher education that can run laps around the intelligence of Higher Education People.

In todays society, a degree can make you land a better job in some instances, but it doesn't necessarily make you smarter. Myself included.

People who mention that they have a degree are only saying that my opinion is worth more than others. But it is not always true.

Opinions and Facts are two different things. Go write a book that express your opinions and try to convert some of the weaker minded people to your views.

You are wasting your time and energy trying to prove your opinions here. Just read and become enlightened yourself. Because our opinions are based on knowledge of Facts.

Most of your students that you teach are in their late teens to early/mid twenties. Of course they will believe your opinions. It is easy to shape their minds. At one time, I was one and believed everything I heard from a person of Higher Education.

But as they get older, they will think back to you and say, "He lied to me". Some will and some won't. But as they get real life experiences they will realize that they have been through a form of Brainwashing.

I'm writing to ask you, to beg and implore you, to release the fear, ignorance, and insecurity that underpin your juvenile ideology. As a fiercely conservative Senior (American Government and History Major) at Cornell University, I have found your arguments, your ideas, and your motives thoroughly intriguing. Unfortunately for you, they have been largely debunked by history, science, and rational thought. I could, if I had the time or inclination, debunk your pseudo-scientic conceptions of race in page of writing. Fortunately for you, I honestly don't believe that most of you are all really so ignorant and pathetic as to buy into most of the garbage that you espouse. To be fair, however, I'll offer you a few morsels of brain food (called knowledge) that actually comport with the science that you so rely upon. 1. Though genetically, racial differences have the potential to be significant, they certainly can't account for the disparities evidenced in a society as advanced as ours. 2. Differences in ability do not justify moral inequality. Every human, no matter how tall, short, black, white, simple, or intelligent is born with "unalienable rights". 3. The new "racial science" itself places Asiatics (mongoloids) at the top of the evolutionary chain--which should be problematic for you people. 4. Exogamy--you call it "miscegenation" or "race-mixing"--is beneficial to its offspring. Mixed children, on average, are healthier, more well-adjusted, and more able performers in school.

All of that rubbish aside, it is clear that if race does matter, it matters a great deal less than factors such as physical environment (such as the cold weather and terrain that forced Europeans to carve their civilizations from stone), opportunity, self-perception, and world-view. For you people to have latched the most central functions of your identity onto race is both small-minded and telling. It reveals that many of you, no doubt, feel threatened by a world that you simply can't control. One of history's many unmistakeable truths has been that superiority is self evident. While white civilization is, at this time, preeminent, it was clearly not always so. Furthermore, your own rantings, and the fact that you have to make them on a silly "discussion board" removed from civilized society, imply that Jews are more powerful than you are, that fallacious ideas such as "race-blindness" are more powerful and salient than yours, and that your preeminence is threatened. If your superiority is so innate and so indelible, it should be much more effortless and much less controvesial. The truth is, however, that short of relying upon blind faith, your ideas of race are tenuous and arbitrary. Hitler forbade his soldiers from breeding with French women (though not Danes) because they weren't white enough. His superior war machine then lost fantastic battles to Slavs in the U.S.S.R. (long considered an inferior race), and British and American forces of all ethnicities. From the Irish transition from "lesser white" to full white in the U.S., to the shifting ideas of Indo-Aryanism, Japanese racial superiority, and many, many other abounding examples, the only consistancy in the history of race has been arbitrary racism, drawn along national, ethnic, and religious lines. It is a wholly problematic and flawed theory that you would all do well to re-evaluate and reject out of hand.

With that said, I want to invite you all to lay this all down, continue with your productive educations, and find an identity that you can be proud of that is not a simple accident of birth. It does not require a rejection of the superiority of western culture--I myself subscribe to the idea that our culture, for whatever reason, is the best that the world has ever produced--but it will require you to abandone your blind racism. We're all people. Ignorant blacks are no better or worse than ignorant whites. They just happen to be black in a society where, in your own words, that is enough to consign them to a position of permanent disadvantage. The presence of intelligent and prosperous people of all nationalities should lend credence to the fact that average IQs, military conquests, the wealth of nations, etc. are irrelevent to the beauty and wonder of the individual human experience.

Best,
Chris

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LOL, nothing like one-sided half-assed victory through self-assertion eh? I just love the juvenile attitude of it all. Anyways, like any other "academic" institution Cornell is rabidly and foolishly leftist. For what it is worth, there are alot of us here who have degrees in higher education. I am a university senior as well as a few other people here.

Also, are you aware of the demographic makeup of Cornell? I know people there. And I know what it is like compared to where I live and go to school at.

Someone above was talking about places like Brazil having great achievments if what you said was true...they do have a nice culture with lots of achievments and art. They have one of the worlds largest economies, thats an achievment. Especially when you compare them to the countries that surround them.

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You can't be serious about that. That is a bit far fetched. Are you high? Because you obviously know nothing about Brasil.

You can't be serious about that. That is a bit far fetched. Are you high? Because you obviously know nothing about Brasil.

Ok, forget the fact that I ahve lots of friends there...I go there every year and was using facts from the CIA world factbook to support the fact that they ahve a very large ecnomy your right...I know nothing about Brazil, I have never even left the state I live in thanks.

This opinion tends to change along with perspective. It is only any good stating such a thing if one takes up but a single of the numerous moral grounds in dealing with this question, namely, the one wherewith interracial / intercultural conflict minimizes due to the merging, and therefore eliminating of opposites. This is only true, however, in what are already multicultural societies, as implied.

Gee Chris, i'm glad to know that you would still accept me but considering that your offer would require me to give up all pride in my race, a future for my children, and everything I know to be true, i'm afraid I must decline. Thanks but no thanks!

I'm writing to ask you, to beg and implore you, to release the fear, ignorance, and insecurity that underpin your juvenile ideology. As a fiercely conservative Senior (American Government and History Major) at Cornell University, I have found your arguments, your ideas, and your motives thoroughly intriguing. Unfortunately for you, they have been largely debunked by history, science, and rational thought. I could, if I had the time or inclination, debunk your pseudo-scientic conceptions of race in page of writing.

I don't believe that you are a Senior and Cornell University. You wouldn't have made simple elementary style grammatical errors while trying to sound intelligent. I see right through the holes in your argument just in this paragraph quoted above.

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